HeyJaredRoger Kimball
Roger Kimball is the Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Go to School (opens the original)
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Is it wrong to confuse “Islam” with “Islamism”? (opens the original)
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We have just passed the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11 and I see that many commentators are wheeling out the old distinction between “Islam”—a major world religion—and “Islamism”—a violent perversion, we are told, of Islam. There are several reasons why people would be tempted to make that distinction. For one thing, if there are 1.4 billion people waiting to drive airliners into buildings, behead “infidels,” or blow themselves up in a crowded market, we are in an irretrievable situation. <div
Twenty-five years after (opens the original)
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What Schopenhauer Got Wrong (opens the original)
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Free Derek Chauvin! (opens the original)
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So Elon Musk has turned the searchlight back on to Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who was turned into a scapegoat, widely reviled, and jailed when George Floyd died from a drug overdose while resisting arrest. I wrote about Chauvin several times as that disgraceful case unfolded and the nation went into a paroxysm of aggravated mea culpism. Here’s what I wrote at American Greatness a year ago:Thank
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